Knowns Quotes

#1. When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

Errol Morris

#2. There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

#3. There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

Gary Marcus

#5. The problem is that conventional questioning and research techniques are designed to confirm known knowns and reduce uncertainty.

Chris Voss

#6. ...we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they're actually doing.

Brene Brown

#7. I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

David Byrne

#8. Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

Rumi

#9. Keep calm and consult Jack,

Harper Lee

#10. I thought you were talking figuratively! I kept asking and you kept saying, "An entrance to Hell," so I thought, Very well, Cabal, have your moment of melodrama now and bathos later when it turns out your talking about Ipswitch or somewhere, but you meant it. You actually meant it literally.

Jonathan L. Howard

#11. I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Landgraf

#12. That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

Dante Alighieri

#13. I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Chet Faker

#14. We don't manage time, we manage activities within time

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few.

Jim Clyburn

#16. I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

Nik Kershaw